Updating thread author in ForumThread.BeforeCreate with automation not working

Looking at the code, I don't believe changing the Author in the BeforeCreate event will work.  The author appears to be passed separately from the thread before the before create event is run, so the change would not be picked up.

Filed a bug to review this.

Thanks for confirming.  Is there any other way you can advise to update the author?

Thanks for confirming.  Is there any other way you can advise to update the author?

One option may be to customise the widget and rather than using the current call to create in save.vm

#set($threadOrReply = $core_v2_forumThread.Create($forumId, $subject, $body, $options))

You could add a new saveas.vm to the widget containing the line above and call that using the execute as method passing in your shadow author value 

#set($response = $core_v2_widget.ExecuteFile("saveas.vm" "%{ RunAsUserName = "newauthor" }"))

#set($threadOrReply = $core_v2_forumThread.Create($forumId, $subject, $body, $options))
#set($threadId = $threadOrReply.Id)

{
	#if (!$threadOrReply.Approved)
		"redirectUrl":"$core_v2_encoding.JavascriptEncode($core_v2_forumUrls.PendingModeration($forumId))"
	#else		
		"redirectUrl":"$core_v2_encoding.JavascriptEncode($threadOrReply.Url)"
	#end
}

Thanks Karl - I will give it a go!